Cliff_Donner

Done in Photoshop? I don't see any tell-tale signs. The pixelization looks proper.

noodleman

gmss0205

MonkeySwitch

Yes, I'm joking.

stinerman

me and the sysop

/runs to toys r us

mmstk101

I'll confirm that. At my retail store we will scan the item and tell the system to print a sign for it. We go back and print up a corporate mandated sign for that item and put it up. If the corporate teams got it wrong, well we have it wrong. I don't know if there's a way for us to make a "Custom" sign, I don't think there is, only corporate signs at my store.

idip

Employees usually don't print the signs. Usually, a manager prints the signs, not by choosing anything like the price or even the item number. The head office sends, through the intranet, a batch, and this prints automatically.

If their prices in the system are wrong when this happens, the manager won't notice. They start the process, and leave to do something else, then come back in 20 minutes to grab the signs and hand them off to employees.

If the signs are distributed, then each employee has a small amount to deal with, and can probably catch the errors. If, like in the store I worked in, they decide they don't "need" multiple people working when the price changes go through, they'll give all the signs to one person and have them try to hammer out the entire store before it opens.

I used to catch some of the 'negative discount' errors, and I would report them, and the instruction would be to simply not put the sign up. After busting my ass at the store and surpassing every last employee on computer system and LRT knowledge, and never being promoted, I stopped caring, and put the signs up as-is, hoping the store would look foolish.

Maybe that's what happened here. Toys R Us has a way of treating it's employees like shit. The strategy seems to be to always ask more of an employee than you think they are capable of, and constantly imply that if the goals aren't met, someone else will get your hours. In theory, the employees will all work at 100%, so you can see what they are really capable of. In reality, it makes them all bitter, stressed, and angry as fuck. And then they put up signs like this without caring.

dieselmachine

If we don't put the sign up, district manager will tell us to put one up. If we put the wrong kind of sign up, district manager will tell us to print the one prescribed to be put up in the planogram.

In short, it's not mindless employees. It's mindless corporate drones who have nothing better to do than pretend they know how to run a retail store. The employees just value their jobs a bit more than a meaningless, if funny, error on a sign. In corporate's mind, the actual price is correct, so they can't claim we lied to them!

Mo0

humphrmi

if (SavingsAmount <= 0.0)
then PrintAReallyBigWarning();

Kilotonne

Incompetence on SEVERAL stages is always funny.

Ghede

OhneHosen

How could someone put this up and not go, "Hmm... something doesn't compute..."

Verdigris

Owen Good

I guess TRU got suckered by the .99 illusion too?

Crovie

nytmare

HootieMac: Section 9 Reject

Oh, I see, it's a typo in the price sign.

And this made a blog posting?

Again?

robdew2

cde

Its a mistake, and I'm sure the sign auto calculates the savings based on the original price.

This set is 109.95 on Amazon.

$98.86 at Walmart

Still, I guess it shows the employees printing and posting the signs are mindless drones.

AustinTXProgrammer

urban_ninjya

[icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com]
EPIC FAIL

warf0x0r

jchabotte

IrisMR

\Just sayin'

jchabotte

sentai = power rangers
hentai = porn
(More or less)

Walrii

Beerad

timmus

alejo699

ElizabethD